Hello, I am here today to bring attention to a pretty serious issue myself and a good number of others are having, which is our total annoyance at the "Rattlin' Chains, Hiss, Squeal, High Frequency Shriek, that is "supposed" to be some sort of hydraulic noise ever few steps in power armor. Whatever it is supposed to be, to a good number of us it is only a constant annoyance that has totally ruined playing in power armor for me, as I can't wear it at all in first person.
It is bizzare, it doesn't add immersion at all as the sound only occurs in first person while walking or running. Third person and NPC's in the world only give off the sounds of metal footsteps, its perfect, its in the background sound design that only draws you in instead of getting in your face. In first person, in power armor, sprinting does not have any squeal, jumping doesn't, only while in first person regularly moving or sneaking. Every couple of steps this cricket starts tearing away from the rest of the sound design, getting in your face, if not giving you a headache. The fact that there is a different soundscape between third person and first person in the armor is simply silly, and just bad sound design.
I am here today to make a plea to Bethesda to fix this issue, either with a toggle-able option, the sound's removal entirely, my personal hope (Because its annoying as hell to have any noise beeping every 3 seconds) or a total change of the sound to something more like air passing than a high pitched cricket. I LOVE your game Bethesda, my first character has been going since the midnight release, has 8 days + of playtime, and I've JUST become enemies with one of the factions through the story. I would just really love to LOVE your power armor, which you put a lot of time into and looks cool, but is literally like nails on a chalkboard to me when playing with it.
Here's a video to demonstrate the sound I'm speaking of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyafEEJGBFo
Check out 0:36 in the video, as the power armor walks in first person you can hear it.
At least some of us can (and wish we couldn't) Here's the Steam forum detailing the subject with some folks who swear they can't hear it, and some others just like me (Again, swearing to GOD we couldn't) xP
https://steamcommunity.com/app/377160/discussions/0/492378265879404542/#p1